ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,587, issued on March 3, was assigned to Lightwave Logic Inc. (Englewood, Colo.).

"Nonlinear optical chromophores having short-chain bridge structures, low optical loss materials containing the same, and methods for preparing the same" was invented by Cory Pecinovsky (Lafayette, Colo.), Barry Johnson (Castle Rock, Colo.), Ginelle A. Ramann (Centennial, Colo.) and Baoquan Chen (Lone Tree, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nonlinear optical chromophores are provided that have a short chain bridging group between donor and acceptor, which chromophores exhibit lowered Lambdamax values and narrow absorption bands. Electro-optic films pr...